Attacking Art by Joe Scott Thomas Benton's Iron Mill

Attacking Art by Joe Scott Thomas Benton's Iron Mill: Thomas Benton's famous painting Iron Mill is what I think to be a mix between abstract movements and realistic concepts. The abstract movements come from the way that the men are working. All of the men have what seems to be normal movements, all except for the African-American man, who seems to be reaching to grasp something there just out of the pictures frame. The realistic …

…or humidity. Another part of the feeling of sultriness is the way the sun, or light, glares of the men's skin, making it look like sweat. Therefore incurring the onlooker's mind to think of how hot and humid the iron mill must have been just at that moment when the picture was painted. I think that this painting is the beginning of a new interest with an old American painter named Thomas Benton.By Joe